... general theory underlying all of PIT is that psychedelics create information when introduced to human neural networks. The spontaneous creation of new information is the essential function of psychedelic activation, and this new information is i...

... This premise suggests that the primary action of psychedelics (mostly around 5-HT receptors, since that's where research exists) is to destabilize neural network switching related to serotonergic and cholinergic visual processing, as well as the aud...

... experienced under the influence of psychedelics. The fourth component is Physical Shamanism, or Shamanism in the Age of Reason, which describes how techniques of shamanic ritual drive phase transitions into targeted mystical states via...

... and Physical Shamanism are as follows.
psychedelics generate information in the human organism via nonlinear feedback amplification of both intercellular (neural) and intracellular (cytoplasmic) signaling. The nonlinear amplification of se...

Hallucinogens (psychedelics) are psychoactive substances that powerfully alter perception, mood, and a host of cognitive processes. They are considered physiologically safe and do not produce dependence or addiction. Their origin predates written his...

... first time I considered the full implications of psychedelics as catalysts for driving multi-stable states of nonlinear consciousness.8
After releasing a review version of the Multi-State Theory online I received some interesting feedback that h...

... reports of seeing spirits under the influence of psychedelics are common enough to make some formal observations. First, psychedelic entities are anthropomorphic interfaces through which psychedelic information is generated or transmitted. Second, f...

... the morphic field.
Under the influence of psychedelics the shaman can hear nonlinear, nonverbal information coming from the jungle, the city, the plants, the animals, and can intuitively sense their natural cycles and sense them receding into...

... is lying down with their eyes closed then psychedelics will produce a trance state fairly reliably on their own; the shaman does not need to do much more than measure an accurate dose and provide a safe place for quiet reflection. But aside f...

... Psychotherapy
In modern clinical therapy psychedelics are employed to improve psychological resilience in the face of stress or trauma, typically in the case of depression, PTSD, and anxiety. Psychedelics are thought to produce psychological...

... state while retaining some tangential linearity. psychedelics are famous for being recursively nonlinear, which means psychedelic consciousness moves progressively from linear complexity to exponential complexity through time.
Phenomenology of Non...

... Model of Psychedelic Action which proposes that psychedelics work by allowing the brain access to a spirit dimension where information can be passed and received. There will always be entheogen users who adopt the spirit model for personal reasons,...

... or unconscious state, as in going to sleep.
psychedelics are unique in that they can both enhance and degrade perceptual limitations by orders of degrees; psychedelics can obscure and distort perceptual data or they can enhance resolution and g...

... knowledge by exploitative forces, and the use of psychedelics to reconcile the human and natural worlds make it a fascinating and timely read. This 30th anniversary edition includes an appreciative preface by religious scholar Huston Smith and an up...

... of scientific evidence. Being passionate about psychedelics or psychedelic advocacy is not necessarily messianic; claiming psychedelic wisdom has anointed you to save the world is the definition of messianic. ...

On Good Friday, 1962, before services commenced in Boston
University's Marsh Chapel, Walter Pahnke administered small
capsules to twenty Protestant divinity students. Thus began the
most scientific experiment in the literature designed to investig...

... The scientific or reductive view posits that psychedelics are at best hallucinogens and at worst toxins, and that any spiritual benefits derived from psychedelics are psychosomatic fabrications of the subject’s mind. The entheogenic or sha...